From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 15 08:57:54 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA01238 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 15 Jun 1996 08:57:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from chain.iafrica.com (root@chain.iafrica.com [196.7.74.174]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA01211 for ; Sat, 15 Jun 1996 08:57:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (khetan@localhost) by chain.iafrica.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id RAA00549; Sat, 15 Jun 1996 17:53:52 +0200 (SAT) X-Authentication-Warning: chain.iafrica.com: khetan owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 15 Jun 1996 17:53:51 +0200 (SAT) From: Khetan Gajjar To: Carlos Amengual cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: swapper In-Reply-To: <31C2DD22.4045@sadeya.cesca.es> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 15 Jun 1996, Carlos Amengual wrote: >> What side-effects ? It just flushes the swapper. >But which benefit does one get from doing this ? On certain occasions, the swapper doesn't seem to "release" or flush when I exit apps, i.e. I can load a lot of stuff and the swap increases (understanably), and then when I exit those apps, it doesn't flush. On a release machine, I used to be able to manually flush and it would be lower (consistently). Regards, Khetan Gajjar. --- Visit me at http://www.iafrica.com/~khetan/ UUNet-Internet Africa Operations help@iafrica.com or 0800-030-002